15-yr-old rape survivor allowed to end her 28-week pregnancy
New Delhi, June 26 -- The Delhi high court has allowed a 15-year-old rape survivor to terminate her 28-week pregnancy, holding that constitutional courts can permit such procedures beyond the statutory limit when continuation of the pregnancy would cause grave physical or mental harm to a minor.
In an order delivered on Wednesday, a vacation bench of justice Mini Pushkarna said that while the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971, permits termination only up to 24 weeks in specified circumstances, constitutional courts can exercise their extraordinary jurisdiction in exceptional cases such as rape involving minors.
"Although the MTP Act does not provide for termination of pregnancy over the gestational age 24 weeks, the extraordi...
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